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DOI	10.1080/13504509.2024.2315553
	More is not always better: the role of Social Media Information in shaping individual low-carbon behavioral intention
	Tong, Qingmeng; Zhang, Qingfeng; Zhang, Junbiao
发表日期	2024
ISSN	1350-4509
EISSN	1745-2627
英文摘要	Social media greatly facilitates people's access to information; however, it can also lead to information overload and exposure to uncomfortable content that may cause individuals to avoid it. As a result, two types of influencing mechanisms emerge: information exposure and information avoidance, which may impact users' behaviors. Currently, there is limited understanding of the simultaneous effects of social media information exposure and avoidance on individuals' behavioral intentions towards climate change mitigation. Using survey data for 1056 Chinese Gen-Z undergraduates and based on the extended theory of planned behavior, this paper utilizes a partial least squares structural equation model to examine the effects of social media information exposure and information avoidance on individual low-carbon behavioral intention. The results show that information exposure on social media has a positive relationship with behavioral attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control, and then increasing the low-carbon behavioral intention. Information avoidance has a negative association with three factors, respectively, and decreases the low-carbon behavioral intention. Additionally, exposure to social media information has the greatest impact on the subjective norm and the least impact on behavioral attitude; information avoidance has the greatest impact on behavioral attitude, whereas perceived behavioral control is the least affected. Drawing from the results, we propose policy recommendations that facilitate information exposure while addressing avoidance in shaping low-carbon behavioral intentions. Those implications would help reconcile the two opposing effects while promoting public engagement in climate activities.
英文关键词	Information exposure; information avoidance; social media; low-carbon behavior; China
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
WOS类目	Green & Sustainable Science & Technology ; Ecology
WOS记录号	WOS:001168834800001
来源期刊	INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND WORLD ECOLOGY
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/301182
作者单位	Central China Normal University; Zhejiang A&F University; Zhejiang A&F University
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Tong, Qingmeng,Zhang, Qingfeng,Zhang, Junbiao. More is not always better: the role of Social Media Information in shaping individual low-carbon behavioral intention[J],2024.
APA	Tong, Qingmeng,Zhang, Qingfeng,&Zhang, Junbiao.(2024).More is not always better: the role of Social Media Information in shaping individual low-carbon behavioral intention.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND WORLD ECOLOGY.
MLA	Tong, Qingmeng,et al."More is not always better: the role of Social Media Information in shaping individual low-carbon behavioral intention".INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND WORLD ECOLOGY (2024).